By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE An 82-year-old farmer, Opanyin Abraham Kwaku Adusei, has been adjudged the Overall National Best Farmer for 2025 at the 41st National Farmers’ Day Awards Ceremony held in Ho. The headline prize package, sponsored by the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), includes a brand-new tractor with implements from Sino Machinery, a power tiller […] The post 82-year-old

By Kwame A. Apeaning Ghana’s salt industry holds enormous potential, not only as a raw material supplier but also as a driver of industrialisation and export growth. With vast natural deposits particularly along the Keta–Ada coastline, Ghana is well-positioned to become a leading salt producer in West Africa. Yet, realising this potential depends heavily on […] The post Farmers’Day25:

By Kingsley Webora TANKEH A country with a US$2bn food import bill should be waking up with chills for losing an estimated US$1.9billion worth of farm produce annually to post-harvest losses, according to the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG). This haemorrhage from our farms, our silos, our trucks and our markets should inform targetted […] The post Farmers’Day25:

By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE More than three million farmers in northern parts of the country are expected to benefit from a US$63.21million Green Climate Fund grant for implementing climate resilience programmes. This project aims to boost climate resilience for smallholder farmers in northern Ghana by enhancing food security, strengthening the rural economy and promoting sustainable livelihoods […] The post Farmers’Day25:

By Samuel Ohene Nyantakyi Japan Motors Trading Company Ltd. (JMTC) has reaffirmed its commitment to the agricultural and fisheries sectors with a donation of essential equipment to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) ahead of the 41st National Farmers’ Day celebrations. In support of this […] The post Japan Motors

By Sandra Agyeiwaa Otoo The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has urged government to take urgent and transparent action to address the worsening grain glut, which it says is crippling farmers nationwide and threatening food security. According to the Association’s National President, Wepia Addo Awal Adugwala, more than 200,000 metric tonnes of unsold paddy […] The post PFAG

Stanbic Bank Ghana has reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to Ghana’s agricultural development with the donation of a brand-new Massey Ferguson tractor to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA). The gesture forms part of the bank’s continued support toward the 41st National Farmers’ Day celebration scheduled for December 5, 2025. The tractor was officially handed […] The post Stanbic

By Sandra Agyeiwaa OTOO Ga Rural Bank PLC has donated farming equipment worth GH¢79,350 to five local assemblies in the Greater Accra Region, underscoring the bank’s long-standing commitment to supporting local farmers. The five local municipal assemblies, including Ga South, Ga West, Ga North, Ga Central and Weija-Gbawe, were given 25 knapsack sprayers, 25 wheelbarrows […] The post Ga

By Wisdom JONNY-NUEKPE With a significant budgetary allocation of GH¢6.6billion to agricultural production in 2026—the highest for the sector in the last decade since 2016, government’s commitment to food and livestock production may take a new direction toward achieving food sufficiency in the medium term. Agriculture sector stakeholders, including the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana […] The post Farmers’Day25:

By Joshua AMLANU The government is expanding a network of credit-guarantee schemes, subsidies and blended-finance programmes to pull banks back into agricultural lending as the sector grapples with some of the highest non-performing loan ratios in the economy. Whether these interventions can unlock the long-promised flow of capital to farmers will help determine if its […] The post Farmers’Day25:

By Kizito CUDJOE Just as the country strengthens its fight against destructive fishing, a new danger is spreading along the coastline, rivers thick with silt, mercury and chemical waste from illegal mining pouring into the ocean at Shama, Ankobra and other estuaries in the Western Region. By failing to consider the impact of mining-polluted rivers […] The post Farmers’Day25: